Black women struggle with dating stereotypes
The Takeover, an online short film by North Carolina State University graduate Shequeta Smith, brings comedic and ironic qualities to a prevalent topic in the female community: black women vs. white women vs. black men.
The story is based on Smith's real life experiences and revolves around an interracial friendship.
Tisha Boyd is an African-American comic book illustrator and her Caucasian best friend, Ashley Fairchild is a fashion designer. Both single women begin the film in a Los Angeles coffee shop dishing about their dating woes and hardships in finding the right man. Of course, with them being so different each thinks the other has it so much easier.
Tisha gushes black men swarm around Ashley because "white women are easier and don't have all that attitude." Ashley rants Tisha has plenty of options and should not complain since most men she dates are losers.
Eavesdropping on their conversation, the coffee shop owner decides to help them by giving them an espresso concoction causing them to trade bodies for 24 hours.
In the end, the two women finally learn how it feels to be in each other's bodies and find that the dating scene is not all that bad.
The film poses a great assumption that black women get no attention from any men especially black men and white women get attention from all types of men especially rich black men. The hyperbole may be extensive but in some circles especially in Los Angeles, this phenomenon is true.
Many black women are on the losing side of the stereotype that they are ghetto, rude and mean and this film shines light on this.
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